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Freestyle Day #1 (Part #2)

 

The competitions started with the speed slalom: concentration, focus and physical strenghts are needed to win the runs even more with the KO system. Traditionally, the European countries used to win these competitions but in the last few years the Asians came back and here in Arnhem, Chinese Taipei ruled.

 

Junior Women

Gold - Yu EN Ting - CHINESE TAIPEI
Silver - CHen Lu Tsai - CHINESE TAIPEI
Bronze - Francesca Pettinari - ITALY

 

Junior Men

Gold - Jui Lun Cheng - CHINESE TAIPEI
Silver - Yu Hsiang Cheng - CHINESE TAIPEI
Bronze - Hsu Chieh Lai - CHINESE TAIPEI

 

Senior Women

Gold - Lily Granjon - FRANCE
Silver - Wei Jia Wang - CHINESE TAIPEI
Bronze - Po Yi Chen CHINESE TAIPEI

 

Senior Men

Gold - Yu Jun Yan -CHINA
Silver - Jimmy Fort - FRANCE
Bronze - Yu-Chi Chen - CHINESE TAIPEI

 

It was then the turn of the Classic Pair and the Italians Lorenzo Guslandi and Valerio Degli Agostini came back on the first step of the podium after the debacle in Nanjing where they ranked 6th. The defending champions Hao Zhang and Ye Hao Qin - China got the silver medal; Bronze to Mu-Lum Hsieh and Yin-Hsuan Chiu - Chinese Taipei.

 

Classic Pair

Gold - Valerio Degli Agostini/Lorenzo Guslandi - ITALY
Silver - Ye Hao Qin/Zhang Hao - CHINA
Bronze - Chiu Yin-Hsuan/Hsieh Mu-Lum - CHINESE TAIPEI

 

Edited July 7, 2018 by phelps

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Freestyle Day #2

 

The Slalom Classic is one of the first-born discipline in the inline freestyle: the athletes skate on a musical arrangement and the judges asign scores on the base of technical and artistic criteria. On a technical side, the tricks must be blended to allow the athletes moving fluently and, of course, the speed and the rythm of the performance are important as well. In addition, the skaters should integrate different slalom tricks such as sitting, spinning, wheeling and so on and the difficulty of the performed tricks affects the technical score. The artistic score is assigned paying attention to the body performance, music expression and trick management.

 

In the first competitions, Sofia Bogdanova lost the title and got Silver medal; Gold went to her team mate Anna Smirnova and Bronze to Chen Chu Yao, from China.

 

Slalom Classic Junior Women

Gold - Anna Smirnova - RUSSIA
Silver - Sofia Bogdanova - RUSSIA
Bronze - Chen Chu Yao - CHINA

 

It was then the turn of the Junior Men: Shibagaki Taiki won the duel for the Gold over Gu Kun Qi, the defending champion; Bronze went to Gleb Velikanov.

 

Slalom Classic Junior Men

Gold - Shibagaki Taiki - JAPAN
Silver - Gu Kun Qi - CHINA
Bronze - Gleb Velikanov - RUSSIA

 

Su Fei Qian redeemed the Bronze of the 2017 Worlds in Nanjing and conquered once again the Gold medal enchanting public and judges; Silver medal went to Chiu Yin-Hsuan who ranked forth in the past edition; Daria Kuznetsova got the third step of the podium - she was second in Nanjing.

 

Slalom Classic Senior Women

Gold - Su Fei Qian - CHINA
Silver - Chiu Yin-Hsuan - CHINESE TAIPEI
Bronze - Daria Kuznetsova - RUSSIA

 

The last competition was the Senior Men. Zhang Hao confirmed the Gold of 2017.

 

Slalom Classic Senior Men

Gold - Zhang Hao - CHINA
Silver - Shibagaki Masayoshi - JAPAN
Bronze - Lorenzo Guslandi - ITALY

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Speedskating Day #7 & Freestyle Day #3, 2018 Worlds Final Recap

 

The final curtain went down on the 2018 edition of the Inline Speed Skating and Inline Freestyle World Championhships in Arnhem and the closing feelings can only be positive: a successful format unified speed, freestyle and side events in a urban cluster downtown Arnhem.

 

World Skate President Sabatino Aracu: "I would like to thank the Netherland Federation and TIGsport for the great job done. These world championships fit perfectly the core of our world, bringing the sports into the hearth of the city. And I would like to thank the athletes and the coaches: their passion and perseverance make all of us so proud to be part of this great family!"

 

 

SPEEDSKATING MARATHON

Since Nanjing 2016, the Junior and Senior categories have been unified: the Women started at ten o clock and the Men at twelve. The 42.195mt have been divided in 7 laps from the starting line of the road circuit throught the famous Anrhem bridge of the movie "A bridge so far" and back to the road starting line.

 

In the women race, Ho-Chen Yang crossed the line 0.005 seconds before Francesca Lollobrigida who finished the race in 1:10:33.440. The Italian champion arrived at the final sprint together with the two Colombians Johana Viveros, desqualified for fault, and the Junior promise Maria Camila Guerra Guevara who got the Bronze in 1:10:33.602. The Chinese champion Dan Guo, crossed the line fourth.

 

Gold - Ho Chen Yang - CHINESE TAIPEI
Silver - Francesca Lollobrigida - ITALY
Bronze - Maria Camila Guerra Guevara - COLOMBIA

 

Also in the men race, a Junior guy was able to reach the podium: Jason Suttels representing Belgium won the Bronze Medal - 1:02:15.988 - behind the Ecuadorian Jorge David Bolaños Villacorte - 1:02:15.626. Felix Rijnen was the first to cross the line in 1:02:15.607.

 

Gold - Felix Rijhnen - GERMANY
Silver - Jorge Davide Bolaños Villacorte - ECUADOR
Bronze - Jason Sutterls - BELGIUM

 

 

FREESTYLE

The last competitions in the Freestyle Worlds were the battle for all the categories.

 

Junior Women

Gold - Sofia Bogdanova - RUSSIA
Silver - Anna Smirnova - RUSSIA
Bronze - Liu Jia Xin - CHINA

 

Junior Men

Gold - Gleb Velikanov - RUSSIA
Silver - Gu Kun Qi - CHINA
Bronze - Zeng Chen Yu - CHINA

 

Senior Women

Gold - Vasilisa Petushok - BIELORUSSIA
Silver - Daria Kuznetsova  - RUSSIA
Bronze - Zoe Granjon - FRANCE

 

Senior Men

Gold - Zhang Hao - CHINA
Silver - Lorenzo Guslandi - ITALY
Bronze - Valerio Degli Agostini - ITALY

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4 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

The final curtain went down on the 2018 edition of the Inline Speed Skating and Inline Freestyle World Championhships in Arnhem and the closing feelings can only be positive: a successful format unified speed, freestyle and side events in a urban cluster downtown Arnhem.

 

Well, the latter part of it. The first days (the track events) were in Heerde  

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Rink Hockey Men's European Championships 2018

La Coruña (ESP) - 14 July 2018 - 22 July 2018

 

 

 

Official Website

 

 

Full Schedule (and Results & Stats) here:

http://www.eurohockey2018.gal/en_stats

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all games streaming Live here:

www.cers-rinkhockey.tv/

Edited July 14, 2018 by phelps

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Spain destroyed England 10-1 in the Opening Match last night...

let's see what Italy can do today in their easy (on paper) debut against BEL...

on the other group, very interesting match-up between Portugal and Switzerland (10 p.m. CET), match that could even determine the group winners, already on day #1...

Edited July 15, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,664]

well, sorry for the mistake

POR vs SUI is scheduled for tonight...

yesterday the Portuguese destroyed Andorra 11-0, but Italy had even a better day, humiliating Belgium 24-0...

SUI-AUT 5-1 and GER-NED 5-1 were the other matches played yesterday...

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I thought it could have been a lot closer, but in the end it was the usual blow out...

POR vs SUI, the match of the day in yesterday's program, was a Portuguese one-team show and ended up with a 7-1 final score for the red & green machine...

in the remaining matches, ESP destroyed the Netherlands 14-2, GER did joke against BEL 15-0, FRA outplayed Andorra quite easily with a 6-0 final score and Italy won 9-4 against ENG despite playing so sloppy as they rarely do...

today's most interesting match-up is ESP vs GER (h.20 CET), always waiting for Thursday's big clash between ITA and ESP, definitely the highlight of the group stage...

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just another ordinary day at the Rink Hockey Europeans...

Portugal had a rest day, Italy (15-4 over NED) and Spain (7-1 over GER) just joked against opponents who can't match their level of play...

FRA vs AUT (14-3) and ENG vs BEL (14-2) were also unwatchable blowouts...meanwhile the only close game of the day was Andorra vs Switzerland (and it ended up with a surprising 3-2 win for the Andorrans)...

and today it won't be different with Italy (vs GER), Spain (vs BEL...ouch!) and Portugal (vs AUT) ready to add more and more goals to their record...